A look at law school classes and operations during the pandemic
THE NATIONAL JURIST — Let’s be frank about law school in the COVID-19 era: It sucks. If your school is going online, you’ll be stuck at home or in some cramped apartment, hoping the Wi-Fi doesn’t drop. If your campus opens, it’ll open with an asterisk. You’ll have to wear a mask and stay 6 feet…
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ALABAMA POLITICAL REPORTER — Recent law school graduates in Alabama say they’re concerned they have to take the state’s bar exam in person later this month, or during an alternate exam session set for September, even as the state endures surging COVID-19 cases and a pandemic that appears to be nowhere near under control.
Read More about Alabama law school graduates raise concerns over planned in-person bar examsArizona keeps in-person bar exam despite law graduates’ concern about safety
TUSCON WEEKLY — The Bar Exam has long been seen as the moment of reckoning for hopeful law students, but with Arizona COVID cases skyrocketing, the test pressure is higher than ever before. The Arizona Bar Exam is now less than two weeks away, and the state Supreme Court intends to move forward with an in-person…
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4029 NEWS — Arkansas State Supreme Court ruled this week that the state in-person bar exam would go forward. It has been set since before the COVID-19 pandemic began for July 28 & 29.
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LOS ANGELES TIMES — The state Supreme Court, the State Bar of California and about 9,000 recent law school graduates find themselves in a jam. It is almost the traditional time for the July bar exam, the annual hazing ritual that determines whether students have wasted three years of their lives or, instead, will be licensed…
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THE SACRAMENTO BEE — California is refusing to cancel its bar exam despite complications created by the COVID-19 pandemic — but is offering would-be lawyers the option of taking an online test or accepting a “provisional” license that’s good for up to two years.
Read More about California schedules remote bar exam in October and lowers bar pass score permanentlyCalifornia to allow temporary practice for some law graduates amid bar exam delays
BLOOMBERG LAW — California’s highest court is delaying the state’s online bar exam until October and will allow some law school graduates to practice temporarily before passing the test, moves made in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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CPR NEWS — The Colorado Supreme Court announced updated protocols to the upcoming bar exam in response to a group of law students advocating to cancel the test due to the coronavirus pandemic. Under the new guidelines, law students will be able to transfer their applications for the July exam to the February test date and apply…
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DAILY CAMERA — Law school graduates who don’t want to take Colorado’s in-person bar exam this month over COVID-19 fears can switch to the February test and, in the meantime, begin work as lawyers in limited and supervised capacities, the state Supreme Court has ordered.
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EAST IDAHO NEWS.COM — Twenty-one professors at the University of Idaho College of Law signed a letter to the Idaho Supreme Court asking them to grant “diploma privilege,” which would allow graduating students meeting certain requirements to forgo to the bar exam this year and receive their license to practice law.
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